It has caused widespread global controversy, stretching from Catholic groups in Europe and America, to a number of states in India that have also banned the film despite federal censors clearing it for release.

Films that came from Europe were often subjected to the vagaries of individual distributor taste, tastes too often linked to assessments of what might and might not be passed by the film censors.

When you upset the censors with your films, as you often did, were you trying to push buttons consciously or was it something that was organic, something that was just there in your work?

The goal of Freudian dream interpretation is to undo the work of the censor.

Moreover, if dreams were all expressions of repressed infantile impulses, which found an indirect way past the censor, one would expect that the proportion of sleep spent in dreaming would increase with age.

The superego, originating in the child through an identification with parents, and in response to social pressures, functions as an internal censor to repress the urges of the id.

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Many of Pasolini's films, with their anti-fascist voice, radical reformist ideals, and unbridled sexuality, were seized on moral grounds by higher censorial authorities, denounced as blasphemous and obscene.

Like last time around, Walser again said he was addressing freedom of expression; he claimed his book was about the censorial power wielded by the German literary and media establishment.

The Thatcher years were considered by the Press in this country (of all political persuasions) to be the most censorial of media freedoms since the 1600s.

Origen

This was originally a term for two Roman magistrates whose job was to hold censuses and supervise public morals. Their job came from censere ‘assess’. Use to describe someone with the job of inspecting material before publication, dates from the mid 17th century. Censure (Late Middle English) and census (early 17th century) come from the same root.